When This Is All Over

[barry1010]

and normality has returned, do you intend keeping a larger stock of essentials, stockpiling against future episodes?

[pixie374]

No. I haven't managed to this time.

[Bobbisox1]

Like Pixie says, No, I didn’t do it this time so won’t be doing it when normality comes back

[dannyk13]

No.

[SparklyKid]

no

[barry1010]

I haven't done it this time, but when things are back to normal and everything is plentiful I might keep a couple more packets, tins, jars and other non-perishable essentials on stand by.

[MartinMillar]

I always have a well stocked larder and freezer my issue has been dog food

[Buenchico]

I've always kept enough canned stuff, etc to keep me going for a few weeks anyway.

[aelmpvw]

i'll hang on until i'm down to my last gross of carlsberg cans

[-SharonA-]

I didn't this time, but will keep a couple of extra tins.

[rockyracoon]

I haven't done it this time, so no probably not. Though I might not wait til I get down to the last 2 loo rolls before I buy some more.

[Cmitchell]

No.

[Cmitchell]

Martin Miller
I understand that Kennelgate are open? If you feed raw meaty bones then they do the frozen blocks in all the different flavours. Hope that helps bud. ;)

[woofgang]

I have been a prepper all my adult life. First house we owned was in Wells and we used to expect floods, power cuts and/or snow blocked roads every winter. Once I had the habit there was no reason the break it. I don't keep a garage full or anything but I certainly don't let stocks run down. My only problem is currently food for my tortoises but once the garden is growing properly then I can feed them from that and once its warm enough for them to be outside, they will mostly forage for themselves.

[gness]

I really don't know what I'd do if I lived in the UK. It seems odd to have to be thinking of keeping large stocks of essentials just in case but having read on here what some of you are going through to get stuff I do feel for you all.
We have been lucky so far in the wild west of Ireland. Well stocked stores with good safety precautions in place early. No queues and no panic buying. May be different in the big cities.
In a fairly tight lockdown now. We can walk to the sea from home but the beautiful empty beaches are beyond the distance allowed.

[Vagus]

As we’re regular Costco customers we always have a fair amount of essentials anyway. As it happened we did a pretty substantial Costco shop just before all this seriously kicked off, just because we were due one, so are in a pretty good position compared to many.
When things return to ‘normal’, whatever sort of normal that may be, then we’ll continue as before.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Most of my married life has been lived on isolated properties so its the norm for me to have half a dozen of most canned things, a chest freezer in the barn, dried goods in the pantry etc. The only thing I'll probably do is start buying toilet rolls by the dozen in future and have a few more bottles of cleaning products under the sink.

[shoota]

Ib dib dob, be prepared... (It's worth watching all the way through.)

[retrocop]

The only item am running low on is Sparkling water. We have three medium size freezers all well stocked and a a good stock of tinned goods.. Plenty of Propane Gas and a generator.I hasten to add we had all this long before corvid raised it's ugly head.Always ready to provide a feast as and when. :-)

[andy-hughes]

No - not based on experience this time round.

yesterday I went out with a list of a dozen things we needed.

I headed to our local Sainsburys, that there was a queue of over fifty people stretching around the car park and into the road.

On the way home I stopped at a petrol station and a local shop and got everything on my list - including paper towels and milk.

[pastafreak]

Is that prepper pantry for the future apocalypse? Must be...and how many is he feeding with all that? Looking on YouTube, it certainly seems to be a *thing*. Ok if you've got a smallholding. I wonder if the preppers share...